A day before the 28th Edsa People Power Anniversary, President Benigno Aquino arrived to this typhoon-devastated town, calling on a crowd of a thousand to use the spirit of Edsa to recover from the calamity.
They waited for more than three hours at the gate of Malacañang but were never given even a minute of the President’s time.
Hoping to ease the monstrous traffic jams once the government’s construction projects begin, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) plans to hire another 400 traffic enforcers this year.
Still looking for a job? Why not consider a career in the police service? Interior Secretary Manuel “Mar” Roxas II called on “young, idealistic and disciplined” college undergraduates and high school graduates, on Wednesday, to join the Philippine National Police (PNP) as civilian employees.
All hands on deck. The President’s men and women vowed to increase jobs and curb poverty, Malacañang said in a press briefing Wednesday.
Labor officials of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) announced on Thursday an P18-daily wage increase for minimum wage earners that would take effect this month.
The employment rate in the National Capital Region went up by 2.38 percent during the third quarter of 2013 as more people signed up for work compared to those who were fired or voluntarily quit their jobs, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) announced.
Efforts to provide livelihood to survivors of Super Typhoon Yolanda are getting barely any funds in the ongoing rehabilitation program for areas devastated by the storm, particularly in Eastern Visayas, according to a report submitted to a United Nations agency.
TWENTY-seven out-of-school youth (OSY) passed the training program provided by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and Go Negosyo of the Philippine Center for Entrepreneurship.
Beneficiaries of the government’s conditional cash transfer program in the Bicol region are to be hired as tourist guides and facility caretakers under a project funded by the Department of Social Welfare and Development, the Department of Tourism and the Department of Interior and Local Government next year.
Volkswagen turns off some employees’ email 30 minutes after their shifts end. Goldman Sachs is urging junior staff to take weekends off. BMW is planning new rules that will keep workers from being contacted after hours.
A Quezon City councilor has a suggestion for solving the teacher shortage nationwide as a result of the implementation of the K-12 program: Fill the job vacancies with qualified ex-overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) currently unemployed.
After “Oplan Hatid” we are now organizing “Oplan Trabaho” for the survivors of Supertyphoon “Yolanda.” Together we can help them get their lives back on track with dignity.—Junep Ocampo, volunteer organizer
